retired doc's thoughts

A major barrier ( I argue the major barrier) to control health care costs by the third party payers has been and still is to a lesser degree...

An article from three British researchers makes a good case that vagal tone is not the reason for the athlete's bradycardia in a 2015 co...

IMPORTANT CORRECTION:Since this commentary was posted I  realized I misinterpreted the two articles I quoted leading to the title conclusion...

A recent report by KL Kucera et al give details on high school and college fatalities related to head and/or spinal injuries . From 2004 ...

Two, articles, one from Germany and one from Italy might provide some reassurance to long time endurance athletes worried about too much of ...

Can "excessive " exercise increase the risk of atrial fibrillation in men but somehow spare women hyper-endurance exercisers from ...

Previously, I had commented on the risk of stroke in atrial fibrillation patients not treated with oral anticoagulants (OAC).In that comment...

Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) has typically been diagnosed in a patient with cardiac symptoms seeking care for   episodic symptoms  w...

Clinical guidelines and conventional medical wisdom all recommend oral anticoagulation (OAC) for patients with atrial fibrillation who are d...

Dr. Lazarus and Harridge from King's college in London have suggested that by observing the trajectory of decline in physiological para...

By "big medicine", I mean to refer collectively to the large organizations that form much of the medical landscape in the U.S. The...

More evidence of   the brain damage that occurs  in  professional football players   was presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Acade...

HIIT is high intensity interval  training or interval training in which the person exercises to at least 80% of his maximal heart rate and o...

Occasionally while  running in the park I will see a T-shirt that says "Run Like a Keynan". A more precise and accurate phrasing m...

A great source for information about the exercise capacity of octogenarians is a 2013 article by Scott Trappe and co-authors.( Trappe,S et...

Dr, S. Moharty  et al have presented a meta-analysis on the relationship between exercise level and risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). In wh...

People who do endurance exercise training may re-model their hearts in a way that not surprisingly facilitates exercise but also this may ha...

Paying for health care with other people's money-what could possibly go wrong? Dr. Paul Hsieh answers the question posed in the...

 Scott Alexander on his blog Slate Star Codex offers this insightful explanation of what is going on with the price of the Epipen and why a...

 Extracted from an article  from AANS regarding traumatic brain injury (TBI) data from 2012: Defensive backs in American football are a...